Last week MOG, social music networking site, announced a collaboration with Rhapsody. This collaboration would place Rhapsody downloads on their site and make them available to MOG users. You’d think that was good news.

Even though I wished they had chosen iTunes instead because the Rhapsody engine stinks, I was happy. Users should be able to legally buy the songs they see recommended around the internet, and if given an easy to use chance, they usually will buy them.

Unfortunately, MOG chose to make their collaboration with Rhapsody supersede some of the best features of their site. Whereas before you could post any song in your music database in a blog post, now a Rhapsody player link comes up first.

There is still a way to upload your own copy of the song, but i you aren’t tech savvy you won’t understand how to so it. Plus, they shortened the songs! This really angers me. Before I could post an entire obscure song for my readers to enjoy, and embed it on my blog if I wanted to share it further. Now you are limited to a mere 30 seconds unless you buy a Rhapsody membership, and before these features were free.

I don’t like the new model. I don’t like being forced to use Rhapsody. I don’t like limited song length. I don’t like that Rhapsody tunes can’t be embedded off site. I don’t like anything about this partnership. I’ll keep their MOG “Most Recent Songs” module installed to track what I’m listening to in my side bar on my personal blog, but I won’t be going back to MOG as a regular user. And that’s too bad, they lost a formerly happy customer this week.

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